Lens Port, Using Flash | Ikelite S5 IS specs

Housing shown with accessory wide angle lens.

Wide Angle Lens

Lens Port

The Lens Port is factory sealed, do not remove.

Treat the glass in the lens port as a camera lens. After use, rinse and gently dry the lens port to avoid water spotting. To clean use a mild soap solution or lens cleaner.

Do not use alcohol or window cleaner on the Lens Port. The Lens Port is threaded so that accessory lenses can be screwed onto the port. The threads are very fine, take care not to cross thread accessory lenses.

The housing port has a 67mm thread which accepts the optional #6420 Ikelite W-20 Wide-Angle Lens and other manufacturers (67mm) screw thread style lenses. These lenses can be screwed onto the lens port above or below water. These lenses are designed to have water between the front of the port and the accessory lens. Make sure no air bubbles are trapped between the port and the accessory lens. There may be slight vignetting when these wide angle lenses are installed. Any vignetting that occurs can be eliminated

by zooming the camera lens slightly. To properly light subjects when using a wide angle lens an external strobe should be used. Due to the wide coverage of the wide angle lenses, the DS125 Substrobe is recommended or two DS51 Substrobes.

Diffuser and Deflector cont.
A diffuser and deflector are
included with the housing. The	Diffuser/Deflector
diffuser is white transparent	material
diffuser is white transparent	+
plastic. The deflector is also
white but is not transparent.
To install the diffuser or deflector	+
To install the diffuser or deflector
spread the port clamp at the	Port Clamp
spring end and slide over the lens
port. The white plastic should be	Spring
placed in front of the camera flash.
The port clamp should be pushed back
against the front of the housing.	Spread to Install
Diffuser

The diffuser should be installed when using the camera’s built in flash. When shooting with the camera’s built-in flash at approximately 2 feet (0.6 m) or less, zoom the lens to maximum telephoto. The lens port on the housing blocks a portion of the light from the camera’s built-in flash when shooting close up. If you do not zoom to maximum telephoto, a shadow may appear in the lower left corner of close-up photographs. (You can test this above water)

Deflector

The deflector should be installed when using an external strobe such as the DS51 or DS125 Substrobe and DS Sensor. The deflector is required when using the camera’s built-in flash to trigger the EV Controller. The deflector will redirect the camera’s flash to the DS Sensor or EV Controller which controls the external strobe.

Using Flash

Using the Camera’s Built-in Flash.

If you do not have an external flash the camera’s built-in flash can be used. See Diffuser instructions.

Diffuser & Deflector Installation

Diffuser

	Housing shown with
10	diffuser installed.
10

Using External Strobes

Using TTL Flash Exposure with

External Ikelite DS Substrobes (Recommended) This housing has Conversion Circuitry built into the housing. When used with current model Ikelite DS Substrobes the Conversion Circuitry provides Canon eTTL flash exposure. In the TTL mode the camera controls the light output of the external strobe(s) to obtain properly exposed images. The Conversion Circuitry is powered by the Ikelite DS Substrobe when connected to the housing with the #4103.51 single or #4103.52 dual sync cords with a blue band. See page 13 for DS Substrobe compatibility with Conversion Circuitry.

Using Manual Exposure with External DS Substrobes Any Ikelite DS Substrobe(s) can be used in the manual mode when connected with the #4103.51 single or #4103.52 dualyncs cord with a blue band. In the manual mode different power settings on the DS Substrobe can be selected to obtain a properly exposed image.

Using Ikelite Non-DS Substrobes (Substrobes 50, 100A, 200, 400) with this housing.

The Conversion Circuitry is automatically disabled when used with a Non-DS Substrobe. These Substrobes can be used in their manual mode utilizing any power settings provided on the Substrobe.

Using Non Ikelite Strobes with this Housing

The Conversion Circuitry is automatically disabled when used with a Non Ikelite strobe. These strobes can be used in their manual mode utilizing any power settings provided on the strobe.